#essence

If the private life of the sea could ever be transposed onto paper, it would talk not about rivers or rain or glaciers or of molecules of oxygen and hydrogen, but of the millions of encounters its waters have shared with creatures of another nature. ↗

— Federico Chini

#essence #life #nature #private-life #sea

Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#become #creativity #essence #many #performance

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. ↗

— George Orwell

#being human #does #essence #human #perfection

Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence. ↗

— Paracelsus

#earth #elements #extract #firmament #little

The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things. ↗

— Franz von Papen

#being #conservative #divine #essence #ideology

People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself. ↗

— Vanessa Paradis

#away #essence #famous #get #girl

But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership. ↗

— Chris Patten

#about #articulate #clear #doing #essence

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently. ↗

— Tony Robbins

#consistent #consistently #control #direct #essence

It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed. ↗

— Bill Sienkiewicz

#approach #because #corporate #creator #depending

The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become. ↗

— Anna Garlin Spencer

#become #being #democracy #equal #essence